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She then harmed herself with two kitchen knives, tried to overdose on migraine tablets and wrote a suicide note as Macey lay dead in a bedroom.

Two pathologists had given evidence that Macey was most likely to have died after being smothered or having pressure applied to her neck.

Sentencing Jackson to life in prison with a minimum term of 16 years, Judge Michael Chambers said: "For a mother to kill her very young child who depends on her for protection above all others is a wicked and appalling act."